Articles by cpeterso
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Cookies Are Behind Us. Probabilistic Data Is Ahead (adexchanger.com)

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In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO (platformer.news)

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Video games for dogs aim to help aging canine brains (axios.com)

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Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a back end (levels.fyi)

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MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents (2016) (blog.meteor.com)

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Correlation between the use of swearwords and code quality in open source code? [pdf] (h-its.org)

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“Modernist Pizza” by Nathan Myhrvold (modernistcuisine.com)

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Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers (trunkbaseddevelopment.com)

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AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit (vice.com)

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Acrobat PDF rendering engine added to Microsoft Edge (adobe.com)

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Towards a Modern Web Stack (docs.google.com)

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How artificial intelligence is helping us decode animal languages (weforum.org)

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Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Improving PagerDuty’s Operational Resilience to Achieve Our Long Term Vision (pagerduty.com)

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Amazon to Shut Down Charity Donation Program AmazonSmile (cnet.com)

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Wyoming SJ0004 – Phasing out new electric vehicle sales by 2035 (wyoleg.gov)

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20 years of Safari: A visual history (cultofmac.com)

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AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in court (cbsnews.com)

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Windows 8.1 support will end on January 10, 2023 (microsoft.com)

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Mobile Native Foundation improving engineering large-scale mobile applications (mobilenativefoundation.org)

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Mysterious Antennas Are Appearing in Utah's Hills and Officials Are Stumped (vice.com)

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Migrating our largest mobile app to React Native (shopify.engineering)

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Ask HN: What have you read recently that changed your mind about something?

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We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online (cotten.io)

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New minerals discovered in massive meteorite reveal clues to asteroid formation (ualberta.ca)

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Freeze rv: segment in Firefox UA string to 109 to avoid erroneous IE11 detection (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative (blog.mozilla.org)

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Epic Games agrees to pay $520M over Fortnite privacy violations (go.com)

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Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla (blog.mozilla.org)

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Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish? (bloomberg.com)

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Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Until 2026 (bloomberg.com)

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No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you (arstechnica.com)

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Google shuts down Duplex on the Web, its attempt to bring AI to retail sites (techcrunch.com)

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MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot (futurism.com)

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision (techcrunch.com)

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For $20 a month, you can host meetings in Mozilla’s mini metaverse (techcrunch.com)

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Mozilla Rolls Out Subscription Tier for Its Hubs Virtual Meeting Space (pcmag.com)

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Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (2018) (socket3.wordpress.com)

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Recognizing Patterns in Memory (timdbg.com)

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A Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment (wired.com)

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Insomniac, the Browser That Never Sleeps (insomniacbrowser.com)

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Elon only trusts Elon. Employees, advertisers keep warning him about the risks (platformer.news)

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LLVM-MOS 6502 Back end [pdf] (llvm.org)

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About Project Mushroom (projectmushroom.xyz)

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NSA guidance on how to protect against software memory safety issues [pdf] (defense.gov)

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Stories behind Bay Area tech company names (2015) (sfgate.com)

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Message Outside Facebook Campus Reminds Employees to Stay Motivated (2014) (businessinsider.com)

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Meta Plans to Lay Off Thousands of Employees Starting This Week (gizmodo.com)

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How close is RISC-V to RISC-I? (2017) (archive.org)

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Mozilla launches $35M VC fund for early-stage ‘responsible’ startups (techcrunch.com)

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I build my minimum viable products (levels.io)

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Google Walks Away from Digg Deal (2008) (washingtonpost.com)

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The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser (theverge.com)

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Star Raiders™. New Game. Private Property. (1982 Atari ad) (twitter.com/fultonbot)

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Flutter 2022 Strategy (docs.google.com)

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Speeding up the Rust compiler without changing its code (kobzol.github.io)

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Chinese citizens use puns to get past internet censors (restofworld.org)

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All About E: A Language That Infiltrated JavaScript (thenewstack.io)

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Human hibernation is a real possibility (newscientist.com)

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Comparing Floating-Point Numbers Is Tricky (2017) (bitbashing.io)

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Netflix might get into cloud gaming, forms another new game studio (polygon.com)

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Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns (theintercept.com)

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Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial: Sign Up Now (slimemoldtimemold.com)

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton convicted on three charges of fraud (engadget.com)

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Emoji only 'old people' use that have Gen Z rolling their eyes (dailymail.co.uk)

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Project Starline expands testing through an early access program (blog.google)

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Samsung's Tizen OS is coming to other brands' TVs (engadget.com)

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Hans Niemann Report – Chess.com’s Current Research and Findings – October 2022 (drive.google.com)

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How to kickstart and scale a consumer business by doing things that don’t scale (lennysnewsletter.com)

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Celebrating the BBC Pips: Greenwich Time Signal (2018) (rmg.co.uk)

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South Korea is stuck with IE for online shopping because of security law (2013) (washingtonpost.com)

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Former Google engineer reveals the secret YouTube plot to kill IE6 (2019) (theverge.com)

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America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants (reuters.com)

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Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI (ieee.org)

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A World Wide View of Browsing the World Wide Web [pdf]

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On the Hunt for Ginormous Effect Sizes

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Cinder: Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython

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Antimatter Brings Shitposting to the Classroom

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Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it)

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Apple Responds to Annoying iOS 16 Copy and Paste Prompt: 'Not Expected Behavior'

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Got: Game of Trees version control system for OpenBSD developers (2019) [pdf]

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Layoffs Don't Tell the Whole Story: Hiring freezes matter more than layoffs

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Use-After-Freedom: MiraclePtr

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Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team

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A mysterious new Babylon 5 project is coming sooner than you think

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A Home Depot “merchant” knew we all needed a $300 set of supersize bones

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Optimizing Clang: A Practical Example of Applying Bolt

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Tired of Zoom Meetings? Get Ready for Hologram Meetings

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A Week of Bug Reporting

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Mozilla’s Anti-Tracking Crusade

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Why does everything on Netflix look like that?

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WeWork's former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1B

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Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense

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How to Fuzz an ADT Implementation